Take God Personal

If you’re anything like me you will at some point, whether consciously or not, assign your idea of God to be just a universal, ever-powerful force.

Personal God This view of God can actually be really appealing because it doesn’t demand a personal response from us. It’s an easy option where God can be boxed up and tucked away on the “universal force” shelf somewhere beside the Law of Gravity. It makes Christianity a simple procedure of ticking the boxes, going to church, reading the Bible and obeying the rules. Very similar to gravity, God quickly becomes a case of “Don’t bother Me and I won’t bother you.”

But the Bible paints a very different picture of God. Beyond just a powerful force, He’s an intensely personal being that cries, parties, is compassionate, jealous, absolutely stoked and even hurts for us little humans. And it all makes sense when you really think about it. Follow me for a moment…

If God is truly God – being all-powerful, all-knowing, ever-present – He must have a greater level of existence than us humans. So just like we would say that humans have a greater existence than monkeys – because we are more personal, having a sense of things like love, justice, goodness and compassion – so God, by definition, must out-do us in the personal stakes. For something to be greater than us human beings it must have our greatest asset at a much greater capacity. God must be exceedingly loving, exceedingly just, good and compassionate. And unless our view of God grasps the magnitude of these concepts, our faith is a waste of time, we may as well bow down and worship gravity.

God is a person, and if He’s not, there’s no way He can be God.

God is a person, and if He’s not, there’s no way He can be God.

This dramatically alters the way we should view the Christian faith. It’s like realising that the computer you’re staring at right now has a personality: suddenly it’s not just a means to an end. The computer becomes an end in itself. You desire its presence and it grows jealous for your attention (I really hope no one takes this computer analogy literally!). You get the picture. God is an end in Himself. In fact, He is the end – the ultimate supplier of our personal needs and desires. He is infinitely personal.

John 11:35. Here’s a verse to go away and look up (in fact jump over to Bible Gateway and check it out now). It is two very simple words that have a very profound insight into the immensely personal nature of God.

What does it mean to you today that Jesus weeps and laughs and loves and is moved by the things that happen in your life?

Allow A Course In Miracles to guide you along the way!

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